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Swashbuckling German performance against Brazil sure to be curbed to factor in Argentinas singularly minimalist enforcerNobody, Toni Kroos insisted on Tuesday night, wins the World Cup after a semi-final. Jogi Löw pursued the theme: there had been no exultation in the dressing room, he insisted; there was still one game to go. The response was sensible, admirable even, and it probably is true that there is no team so likely to be capable of moving on from a historic victory as Germany but, still, wins of that nature have their dangers.
Löw, even if he were minded to do so and one of the criticisms of him as a coach is that he so rarely pulls off plans to thwart the opposition cannot really change his side. To drop anybody or change the shape after such a win is to invite ridicule if it goes wrong. Löw, to his credit, has shown little indication of caring for public opinion: some would have resisted restoring Philipp Lahm to right-back when seemingly the whole of Germany had called for it for fear of seeming weak; Löw wasnt bothered.
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Löw, even if he were minded to do so and one of the criticisms of him as a coach is that he so rarely pulls off plans to thwart the opposition cannot really change his side. To drop anybody or change the shape after such a win is to invite ridicule if it goes wrong. Löw, to his credit, has shown little indication of caring for public opinion: some would have resisted restoring Philipp Lahm to right-back when seemingly the whole of Germany had called for it for fear of seeming weak; Löw wasnt bothered.
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